Vietnam targets to send 110,000 workers abroad

The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) has set a target to send 110,000 labourers to work abroad in 2018. (Photo: nld.com.vn)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs
(MoLISA) has set a target to send 110,000 labourers to work abroad in 2018,
with 40 percent being women.

The ministry will try to maintain traditional labour markets like the Republic
of Korea, Japan and Taiwan (China). This year, it will focus on increasing
quality of the workers to ensure competitiveness and incomes.

MOLISA Deputy Minister Doan Mau Dieu said that the Department of Overseas
Labour should study to make recommendations for the amendment of the law on
Vietnamese workers working overseas under contracts while renewing inspection
work.

Solutions should be deployed to strictly manage and protect the interests of
Vietnamese labourers working in foreign countries, he noted.

Last year, over 134,700 workers went to work abroad, including 53,340 female
workers. The figure exceeded the annual plan set for 2017 by 28.3 percent. This
is also the fourth consecutive year that the number of workers sent overseas has
surpassed the 100,000 benchmark.

Taiwan led in hiring Vietnamese guest workers with 67,000 people in 2017, nearly
half of the total number of Vietnamese workers overseas. As of the end of 2017,
the number of Vietnamese workers working in Taiwan stood at 206,184, with 87
percent employed in industrial manufacturing and 13 percent in social services.

Japan
was the second largest market for Vietnamese guest workers, receiving 54,504
workers in 2017, up 36.47 percent from 2016, bringing the total number of
Vietnamese trainees in Japan to over 100,000, the highest among 15 countries
sending trainees to Japan.

The results were attributable to the MoLISA’s efforts like organising a
conference with 280 labour export enterprises to remove bottlenecks in the work
and discuss measures to improve their operation efficiency and workers’
quality.

Last year, the ministry granted licences for 44 more labour export companies
and carried out inspections in 29 firms sending workers abroad in contracts. The
inspection revealed violations of labour export regulations at 16 companies and
five companies had their licenses revoked. Meanwhile, three others were ordered
to suspend their operation for 6-9 months. -VNA